Friday 26 November 2010

Picton Castle at anchor, Benoa, Bali, Indonesia; Friday 26 November 2010 בס"ד

Woke up at 0410 when it started raining and relocated to the forepeak. 0715 wakeup, breakfast, and domestics in the forward head. Then broke into Green Knight rust removal duty on the topsides, first starting over the rail on the aloha deck, then once the boat came back from a skiff run, we all got in and went around doing the topsides from there. Once done in the boat, I was sent into the headrig to scrub the starboard hawse with Green Knight, so I had a deckbrush on a lanyard. Lunch, then break, then rust busting the shit out of the aloha deck. At about 1600, cleaned up, then helped Jan finish up the fish he made for the fore tgallant yard. Went ashore at 1700 for shower, and talked with the Captain and Made Alon (his tour guide friend) about Bali planning. Back to the ship at 1800, dinner, then galley clean. I really wanted to get a video from aloft in the main royal of airplanes going to land and it looks like they're just feet away from our rigging, but it was too dark. Worked on my log, and kept going on deck every 15 minutes or so soaked in sweat just from sitting in the forepeak. Nadja and I went on the 2100 skiff run, and picked up DB and Chris, the only two people to come aboard at all in the two days of watch. So ends the two days of watch, except for 0400 anchor watch where I'll teach Astrid to light the stove, and morning domestics. Then, four straight days off in a row, the most free time I've had in one block since I joined the ship in Lunenburg in April. Shabbat Shalom.